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A.E. Housman (1859-1936)

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Literary Criticism

Bayley, John. "Blue remembered jokes" in The Spectator, Apr 11, 1998. On The Poems of A.E. Housman, edited by Archie Burnett

Burnett, Archie, ed. The Poems of A.E. Housman (Oxford Univ. Press, 1997), publisher's site

Burnett, Archie, ed. The Letters of A.E. Housman (Oxford Univ. Press, 2007), publisher's site

Burnett, Archie. "A.E. Housman's 'Level Tones.'" In A.E. Housman: A Reassessment. Holden, Alan W. (ed.); Birch, J. Roy (ed.)

Butterfield, David. Review of Archie Burnett, The Letters of A.E. Housman. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 8/4/2007

Eyres, Harry. "The poet and the playwright," on A.E. Housman as the subject of Tom Stoppard's play The Invention of Love. In The Spectator, Sep 27, 1997

Graves, Richard Perceval. A.E. Housman: the Scholar-Poet (Taylor & Francis, 1979). Preview at Google Books

Grosholz, Emily. "Thick on Severn snow the leaves." A review of The Letters of A.E. Housman, edited by Archie Burnett. The Hudson Review, Winter 2008

Holden, Alan W. and J. Roy Birch. A.E. Housman: A Reassessment (Palgrave, 1999), publisher's site. At Google

Howarth, Peter. "Fateful Forms: A.E. Housman, Charlotte Mew, Thomas Hardy and Edward Thomas." In The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry, ed. Neil Corcoran (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007). Publisher's web site

Johnson, Paul. "From Bromsgrove to Trinity." Review of The Letters of A.E. Housman, edited by Archie Burnett

Kermode, Frank. Review of The Letters of A.E. Housman, ed. by Archie Burnett. London Review of Books, Vol. 29 No. (5 July 2007)

Kopff, Christian. "Conservatism and creativity in A.E. Housman" in Modern Age, Summer, 2005

Lane, Anthony. "Lost Horizon: The Sad and Savage Wit of A.E. Housman." New Yorker, Feb 19-26, 2001

Leitch, Paul. "Butterworth's Housman re-assessed lad culture," in Musical Times, Spring 1999

Mackenzie, Donald. "Two Versions of Lucretius: Arnold and Housman" [and Matthew Arnold]. Translation & Literature, 2007 Autumn; 16 (2)

Monteiro, George. "Traces of A.E. Housman (and Shakespeare) in Hemingway." The Hemingway Review, Fall 2008

Raine, Craig. "The big issue and the private clue." Review of The Letters of A.E. Housman, edited by Archie Burnett, in the Telegraph (UK), 6/7/07

Stoppard, Tom. "'The lad that loves you true.' A.E. Housman was notoriously reticent, but recently discovered letters reveal the intensity of a friendship begun as a young undergraduate at Oxford, which was to have a profound influence on his poetry and the rest of his life." 6/3/2006, The Guardian

Stoppard, Tom. "On 'The Invention of Love': Another Exchange." Letter by Tom Stoppard, reply by Daniel Mendelsohn, NY Review of Books, 10/19/2000

Vickery, John B. "Bridges and Housman as Elegists: the modern threshold" [and Robert Bridges, modernism, elegy]. English Literature in Transition (2005) 48, 4

Leithauser, Brad. "A footnote for Housman." On Housman's poetic practice. The New Criterion, Vol. 10, No. 1, September 1991 (moved or removed)

Introduction

An extended, reliable, encyclopedia-type introduction to Housman from the Poetry Foundation

A very brief introduction to A.E. Housman from the Academy of American Poets

Very brief paragraph on A.E. Housman from The Columbia Encyclopedia

An introduction to Housman from the Gale Group

Web site for the Housman Society, which contains news about Housman programs, recent books, and a list of articles in the Housman Society Journal

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